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Well, I got my first fly it to the tie down experience yesterday. VERY interesting.
A bunch of us decided to fly up to Lancaster Dallas (KLNC) to goof off. It was annoying to see the cars passing us on the highway...... I think our ground speed averaged 75mph which actually isn't too bad. It took 2 hours for a 1.2 hour trip.
We landed 36 and the wind was 33knots out of 33. Just as I touched down, for the third time
, I noticed on the gps that my ground speed was 16! The clipper and the 172 that were flying up with me were doing an offroad excursion instead of using the Taxi ways, the clipper was having a very hard time taxing......
Just having gone through my annual, I had nicely adjusted brakes and was able, with careful finess, to taxi fine. The only really shocking experience was when taxiing at 6.8 mph (gps reading again) my left wing decided to try and go flying again!!! That sucker got up about 3 ft before I knew it!! I made it to the tie down fine and waited for one of the other guys to run over and tie the wing and tail down.
The one really annoying problem I had on the way back was keeping up with everyone. We had a direct crosswind so were cruising at about 100 to 116. My Airspeed was registering 110 to 120. Then I would get in a thermal. Next thing I know I'm 500 feet up and pulling back on the throttle to keep from going faster. It literally felt like I was surfing home!
Not exactly my favorite conditions, but a good experience.
Richard Boyer
N95791
A bunch of us decided to fly up to Lancaster Dallas (KLNC) to goof off. It was annoying to see the cars passing us on the highway...... I think our ground speed averaged 75mph which actually isn't too bad. It took 2 hours for a 1.2 hour trip.
We landed 36 and the wind was 33knots out of 33. Just as I touched down, for the third time
, I noticed on the gps that my ground speed was 16! The clipper and the 172 that were flying up with me were doing an offroad excursion instead of using the Taxi ways, the clipper was having a very hard time taxing......Just having gone through my annual, I had nicely adjusted brakes and was able, with careful finess, to taxi fine. The only really shocking experience was when taxiing at 6.8 mph (gps reading again) my left wing decided to try and go flying again!!! That sucker got up about 3 ft before I knew it!! I made it to the tie down fine and waited for one of the other guys to run over and tie the wing and tail down.
The one really annoying problem I had on the way back was keeping up with everyone. We had a direct crosswind so were cruising at about 100 to 116. My Airspeed was registering 110 to 120. Then I would get in a thermal. Next thing I know I'm 500 feet up and pulling back on the throttle to keep from going faster. It literally felt like I was surfing home!
Not exactly my favorite conditions, but a good experience.
Richard Boyer
N95791
I just spent 1 1/2 hrs listening to the local EAA Chapter try to schedule things for this year... I needed that bit of humor. thanks Bob 
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